The Art of Happiness

concluded that the failure to appreciate thelimited half-life of passionate love can doom arelationship. She and her colleagues felt that theincrease in divorce rates over the past twentyyears is partly linked to the increased importancepeople place on intense positive emotionalexperiences in their lives—experiences likeromantic love. But one problem is that thosetypes of experiences may be particularly difficultto sustain over time ...”“This seems very true,” he said. “So, whendealing with relationship problems you can seethe tremendous importance of examining andunderstanding the underlying nature of therelationship.“Now, while some relationships are based onimmediate sexual attraction, you can have othertypes of relationships, on the other hand, in which